By Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, author of Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa When I first encountered the fascinating Moroccan polymath Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (c. 1569 – …
Read More >By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650 If Medieval Studies, as some say, has a “whiteness problem,” Mediterranean Studies does not. Recentering the narrative of …
Read More >This guest post is published in conjunction with the annual meeting of the World History Association taking place June 21-23 in Milwaukee. It originally appeared on Silk Road Digressions, author Susan Whitfield’s blog on the geography, history, …
Read More >University of California Press will launch Journal of Medieval Worlds (eISSN: 2574-3988), a new quarterly online journal in 2019. Aims and Scope Journal of Medieval Worlds will serve as a forum for …
Read More >By Susan Whitfield, author of Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road This post originally appeared on Silk Road Digressions, author Susan Whitfield’s blog on the geography, history, archaeology, artefacts …
Read More >University of California Press is pleased to introduce Journal of Medieval Worlds (JMW), a new quarterly online journal launching in 2019. Edited by Edward D. English, University of California, Santa Barbara, Journal of …
Read More >As the Medieval Academy of America conference begins this week in Toronto, we’re featuring hits from our backlist of Ancient World titles, turning our focus to the Global Middle Ages and Late …
Read More >This post is part of a blog series introducing the editors of Studies in Late Antiquity (SLA), our new online quarterly journal launching in February 2017. Learn more about the new journal at sla.ucpress.edu. We …
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